68 Ways to Increase Website Traffic: Growth Hacking Tactics

So you’ve got a blog, an MVP, a landing page, or even a full product…now you just need users. It seems to me that customer acquisition is one of the biggest challenges that startups face. Getting people to visit your site is the first step in the customer acquisition process.

Traffic is just the top of the conversion funnel. You also need optimized conversion funnels, strong copywriting, good design and UX, and of course…a product that people want!

Below are 68 ways to get more traffic. Note that every product and company is different. You will want to consider what your customer lifetime value is and how that compares to the customer acquisition cost of each of these channels. You will probably need to test different channels and iterate until you find one that works.

This post is basically rapid fire cliff notes, if you want more detailed strategies, tactics analysis on how to increase website traffic, check out the link at the end of this post. Now let’s get to it…

6. Engage people by commenting, upvoting, asking questions, following, asking to answer, etc. – they will see your profile and potentially click through

SlideShare is like a mini search engine and good slides tend to get shared fairly heavily.

7. Publish valuable and well designed slides – link to your site in your profile, presentation’s description, and within the slides

8. Engage by commenting, following, etc. – they will see your profile and slides and potentially click through to your site

YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine! YouTube content also surfaces high on Google (the largest search engine).

9. Publish valuable and well produced videos – link to your site in the video’s description and mention it in the video

10. Use relevant titles and keywords to surface higher in search

Amazon is a massive search engine. Plus books surface high on Google, and establish you as an expert.

11. Self-publish relevant and valuable kindle and softback books – link to your site in the description, the book, and your profile

People go to Udemy to search for educational content. Having an active Udemy course also establishes yourself as an expert. In addition, you can monetize your content by selling it on Udemy.

12. Publish relevant, valuable, and well produced courses – link to your site in the description, the course, & your profile

13. Send your students more content and links to your site

WordPress makes blogging and boosting SEO easy.

14. Write relevant and valuable articles that people will find via search and share

15. Install plugins to boost your SEO and sharability

16. Install MailChimp to improve return traffic

Podcasts are centralized in iTunes and the Podcasts app. People go there to search for audio and video content. They are commonly consumed on mobile devices, enabling you to engage with your audience while they’re on the go.

17. Produce relevant and valuable episodes – link to your site in the description and verbally